Thursday

29th October - Law News

Edition 3230: LawNewsIndex is a UK based legal news & articles archive. Since 2011, it has been collating articles on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice. The views expressed in individual articles archived within LawnewsIndex.com are solely the views of the original author.  

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 Focus of the Day Legal Article:  The Law Commission’s reform work has provided gains worth billions of pounds to the economy, business and wider society, economists commissioned by the body have found in the first assessment of its kind. Analysis of 11 projects, ouf of the 230 produced in the body's 55-year history, found predicted economic gains from just five in recent years exceed more than £3bn over 10 years. The commission costs £5m a year to run. Full story - The Law Society Gazette
 
 
Today's Highlighted Video Story: The city of Blackburn, UK, has the highest Covid-19 infection rate in England and staff at its main ICU have endured abuse and relentless pressure.


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Wednesday

28th October - Law News

Edition 3229: LawNewsIndex is a UK based legal news & articles archive. Since 2011, it has been collating articles on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice. The views expressed in individual articles archived within LawnewsIndex.com are solely the views of the original author.  

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 Focus of the Day Legal Article:  Law firms wanting to recruit the best young lawyers must showcase how they make “the world a better place”, a report on the post-pandemic legal services landscape has said. Full story - Legal Futures
 
 
Today's Highlighted Video Story: In 2016, Russia developed a simple, effective playbook to undermine U.S. elections with disinformation on social media. Four years later, Americans are using the same playbook on each other.


Saturday Conversations on Law
  • #India's Former Solicitor General Harish Salve to Marry London-Based Artist After Divorcing His Wife for 38 Years https://t.co/BGiPw0Uy5Z
  • Technician with arthritis, depression and anxiety awarded £117000 after unfair dismissal https://t.co/qKNrlj2jsG
  • On Amazon’s plea, #Singapore tribunal stalls Future-RIL deal https://t.co/FGAgYQJf3
  • The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/Un63DsvmA
  • A federal judge blocked a Justice Department bid to shield President Trump from being sued for defamation over his denial of a rape allegation #US https://t.co/3kBMvZU2jG
  • Green Party raises ‘serious concerns’ around CervicalCheck tribunal #Ireland https://t.co/332f2Gln1
  • Pubs and restaurants in many areas of Scotland will be able to serve alcohol indoors again from next week, the first minister has announced https://t.co/cTdf9lYyK
  • Baby clothes have been listed as essential items that should go on sale in supermarkets during Wales' lockdown https://t.co/wZCdffOxc
  • Calls made for a European convention on the profession of lawyer - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/QD9qKefMP
  • Prompt action needed to reform crofting law - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/DIS616U95
  • Mother who had Universal Credit reduced due to Maternity Allowance fails to challenge benefit rules - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/fmOJ9zVtz
  • Online Employment UK Tribunal Hearings – New Normal? https://t.co/xuRvULsmP
  • My legal life: Gifty Edila, Retired solicitor, corporate director of law and author - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/AfvOetPYg
  • Lawyer in the news: Grant Incles, Leigh Day - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/lRKsDALZV
  • Reputation laundering: a problem for us all | Law Gazette https://t.co/SYRQI4cJQG
  • Training in turbulent times | Law Gazette https://t.co/i1Yj1sYWto
  • #HongKong activist Tony Chung detained near US consulate https://t.co/yjI6ww659u
  • Protests have broken out in Philadelphia after police shot and killed a 27-year-old black man they said had been armed with a knife https://t.co/N5UcWI8hww
  • Appeal over failure to award indemnity costs against SRA - Legal Futures https://t.co/2bwn1KPa7q
  • Solicitors should not be penalised because of financial crime | Law Gazette https://t.co/oiCJeCM52E
  • Law firms “must showcase how they make the world better” - Legal Futures https://t.co/BW8rDlk3P
  • 'Virtual GC' firm aims to support businesses | Law Gazette https://t.co/QZ7WO3zS1
  • At least seven people have been killed and more than 50 injured by a bomb attack on an Islamic school in the #Pakistani city of Peshawar, police say https://t.co/HQgrGSc7jH
  • #Russia has brought in tighter restrictions to try to stem a surge in coronavirus cases, making the wearing of face masks compulsory in all crowded places including public transport https://t.co/SxSNHdTRbT
  • A police officer who strangled his long-term lover after she exposed their affair to his wife has been cleared of murder - Timothy Brehmer, a constable with Dorset Police, killed nurse Claire Parry, 41, in a pub car park on 9 May https://t.co/5w7UGGhAIZ
  • Judicial review panel set for evidence deluge | Law Gazette https://t.co/j8qQ551oPa
  • Mergers increasingly based on net assets in absence of goodwill - Legal Futures https://t.co/2M4L7lva4s
  • Solicitor who changed dates of charges with Tipp-Ex struck off - Legal Futures https://t.co/Hu1qN7lgJl
  • Supermarket staff: 'We feel unsafe when customers don't wear masks' https://t.co/qYWmuCaGL
  • The UK's mobile networks are to be forbidden from selling phones locked to their services from December 2021 https://t.co/YLyBbiFgA8
  • Lord Janner inquiry: Leicester children's home 'burned records' https://t.co/XLkLXrgEd
  • Levels of protective antibodies in people wane "quite rapidly" after coronavirus infection, say researchers https://t.co/8WBOMzhbnp
  • Pay rises and job cuts - the City’s strange case of double vision | Law Gazette https://t.co/pnRbbCXUgy
  • Wales and Manchester courts allow pre-recorded video evidence | Law Gazette https://t.co/7vHl0GxIIe
  • Law reform 'worth billions', economists find | Law Gazette https://t.co/x5fPbwHJcY
  • UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak, who is Indian billionaire Narayan Murthy’s son-in-law, is barred from Yorkshire pub for voting against free school meals https://t.co/kaltL4BYd
  • JR vital to constitutional balance of powers - Society | Law Gazette https://t.co/2rbheyaUJ
  • The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/hKlfIP5Ej
  • Our Legal Heritage: Black History Month – Henry Dundas, lofty hero or lowlife crook? - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/OMjItx3mNx
  • Lawyers of Tomorrow – Lauren Kyle - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/j8HUtWTcJy
  • HMRC more lenient on white-collar tax avoiders - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/mspnlAPzY
  • CMS boosts pensions practice with appointment of Jae Fassam - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/cfMasNhWw
  • Vast majority of Scots unsure about their redundancy rights - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/v88LUoBbE
  • Scottish government ‘responded positively’ to idea of writing off community service hours - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/STvZaSWvGt
  • Supreme Court puts on hold order appointing Justice Madan Lokur to head panel to prevent stubble-burning #India https://t.co/FfLTHoSCqJ
  • 800 legal figures sign letter urging Johnson and Patel to end lawyer ‘hostility’ https://t.co/BJ8pVdbBV7
  • Driver arrested after toddler dies in collision in west London https://t.co/fJowCkXEVg
  • Director at Grenfell Tower TMO describes how fatal cladding saved £800,000 https://t.co/jd3I9969BZ

Tuesday

27th October - Law News

Edition 3228: LawNewsIndex is a UK based legal news & articles archive. Since 2011, it has been collating articles on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice. The views expressed in individual articles archived within LawnewsIndex.com are solely the views of the original author.  

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 Focus of the Day Legal Article:  A non-EU migrant worker who had his visa application refused after the Home Office revoked his employer’s sponsor licence and did not inform him has successfully appealed the decision of the Upper Tribunal to refuse his petition for judicial review of the decision. Full story - Scottish Legal News
 
 
Today's Highlighted Video Story: British special forces have boarded a tanker off the Isle of Wight and gained control after a suspected hijacking. Members of the elite Special Boat Service landed on the vessel by helicopter. Seven people have been detained on the Liberian-registered vessel, which was heading for Southampton. The crew are said to be safe and well.

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Monday

26th October - Law News

Edition 3227: LawNewsIndex is a UK based legal news & articles archive. Since 2011, it has been collating articles on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice. The views expressed in individual articles archived within LawnewsIndex.com are solely the views of the original author.  

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 Focus of the Day Legal Article:  A further two Nightingale courts have opened at Bristol Law Society’s headquarters and Chester Town Hall, bringing the total number to 14. As of last week, 77 jury trials will have resumed, and are running in five Nightingales and two other courts. However, James Mulholland QC, chair of the Criminal Bar Association, said the backlog of Crown court cases―48,713 on 20 September―was rising each week. Full story - New Law Journal
 
 
Today's Highlighted Video Story: Belarusian police have used stun grenades to disperse protesters heading to President Alexander Lukashenko's residence in Minsk, after thousands of anti-government demonstrators peacefully marched through the city's streets.

 

Saturday Conversations on Law
  • Top US legal commentator suspended after allegedly masturbating on Zoom call - Legal Cheek https://t.co/BBHm1HvfQ
  • Redress for ‘historical’ child abuse in care: what can Scotland learn from Ireland? - Dr Maeve O’Rourke - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/iL940WykhW
  • Ashurst launches new Modern Slavery Action Plan #Australia - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/aMQebHSHu
  • The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/wF12BJmijI
  • The best marketing doesn’t feel like marketing - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/HeAEMvbf8O
  • Allen & Overy kicks off pay gap reporting season - Legal Cheek https://t.co/3XAvUkU86L 
  • The legal profession is a marathon, not a sprint: Utsav Trivedi, TAS LAW #India | Bar & Bench https://t.co/LxuXbD2HqV
  • SRA prosecutes former Hong Kong Law Society president over comments during public meeting - Legal Cheek https://t.co/tnFZMCc0wX
  • ‘I owe £180,000 in tax and I haven’t told my wife’ https://t.co/pvqY7iIKPZ 
  • Instagram row over plus-size model forces change to nudity policy - Facebook amends code after deletion of black users’ photos sparks outrage https://t.co/WzPfAFquw8 
  • Fijian-born British soldiers lose latest legal fight to stay in UK - High court rejects call for judicial review of eight veterans’ immigration case https://t.co/e4dF2rx6Qf
  • Windrush man wrongly classified as illegal immigrant left destitute for a year - Home Office delay described as ‘shocking’ in report by parliamentary ombudsman https://t.co/WAOnJX58wv 
  • Serco staff told to wear masks in courts and cells after complaints - Justice ministry orders Serco and other security firms to wear masks as infections rise https://t.co/pUi2w5xcrr
  • Tenants are facing eviction again, despite the UK government's promises - Two of my clients came within days of losing the roof over their heads. The summer ban on evictions must be extended | David Renton https://t.co/C98us9AwWD 
  • Asylum seekers sue UK over unlawful detention - Claimants include victims of torture arrested under guidance from the Home Office between 2014 and 2017 https://t.co/zD4NXcbEmU
  • Chilling find shows how Henry VIII planned every detail of Boleyn beheading https://t.co/tM829qsFgx
  • Freshwater Five: radar casts doubt on guilty verdict for £53m cocaine haul - Lawyer appealing for release of fishermen says evidence shows their boat was in wrong place for drugs transfer off Isle of Wight https://t.co/4PqLc0KKaM
  • The Observer view on Poland's draconian abortion ban - The EU must defend itself against the attack on women’s rights in one of its member nations https://t.co/F1uJQxlkHh
  • Doha airport in #Qatar 'examined women internally' after newborn baby found https://t.co/6l4xfYnOWX
  • 4 senior lawyers appointed to Commonwealth Queen’s counsel #Australia - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/7GwjkOzdXL 
  • Isle of Wight: Ongoing tanker incident 'not a hijacking' - Lawyers Tatham and Co, representing the vessel's owners, said the incident was "100% not a hijacking" despite reports https://t.co/8TkpprJrrI
  • #Spain has declared a national state of emergency and imposed a night-time curfew in an effort to help control a new spike in Covid-19 infections https://t.co/oyEgISB6tm 
  • Constitutional Oath: A reflection of how branches of government function #India | Bar & Bench https://t.co/L0NobI0w9f
  • The ‘exciting and unusual’ caseload of a private wealth partner - Legal Cheek https://t.co/roaBT3woJM 
  • TRP Scam: Mumbai Court refuses injunction against Republic TV in Hansa plea #India | Bar & Bench https://t.co/eafOintU2h 
  • US law firm wooed magic circle partner with incredible annual package worth £5.3 million - Legal Cheek https://t.co/aQ4odAqfcA
  • Latest Law Pod UK: The Cumberlege Review with Marina Wheeler QC - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/TPco9YCrMS 
  • Campaigners have hailed a "new chapter" after a key step by the United Nations towards banning nuclear arms. #Honduras has become the 50th country to ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons so it will now come into force in 90 days time https://t.co/ce9374UCrQ
  • A second Wales-wide lockdown in the new year is looking increasingly likely, according to a cabinet minister https://t.co/d9Spa4BOvA
  • The two-week quarantine period for contacts of those who test positive for Covid-19 could be cut to 10 or seven days, amid criticism of Test and Trace https://t.co/jNWbKkn2qg
  • Priti Patel kept up anti-lawyer rhetoric after Met warning on terror: Police told home secretary of alleged far-right attack on law firm before her ‘inflammatory’ speech at Tory conference https://t.co/zaZhOhiMUW
  • Crisis, Migration and the Consolidation of the EU Border Control Regime | Giuseppe Campesi https://t.co/UMMJjxWg6c 
  • Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas announces its new Permanent Dynamic Working Policy #India | Bar & Bench https://t.co/XunKFitJ59
  • How Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump, Jr., Avoided a Criminal Indictment #US https://t.co/MBrIyPIbgX
  • #Nigeria protests: Police chief deploys 'all resources' amid street violence https://t.co/LpqlZxZQDB
  • HHG appoints former WA A-G as honorary special counsel #Australia - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/gIT23CrkPA
  • The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/fq0Dr1UN6t
  • Hogan Lovells announces new partner diversity targets - Legal Cheek https://t.co/FRIPbTryfe 
  • Ex-Freshfields partner ‘caught on the shifting sands of attitudes towards sexual behaviour’, High Court told - Legal Cheek https://t.co/gNgvo4kJT0
  • Moot Report: 70th Constitution Day National Moot Court Competition at NLU Delhi #India | Bar & Bench https://t.co/3iLcSxBCQT
  • WA Law Society welcomes new president #Australia - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/8nL0sYBtP6 
  • Election Commission moves Supreme Court against Madhya Pradesh HC order #India | Bar & Bench https://t.co/7gSzRVm25K
  • JLD welcomes decision not to strike off struggling junior lawyer - Legal Cheek https://t.co/2FmpVzukGy
  • Fieldfisher boss: ‘My heart drops when I see NQ lawyers in US firms earning more than some of our partners’ - Legal Cheek https://t.co/EU73tQKbyV
  • Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump threaten to sue Lincoln Project - Anti-Trump Republicans’ Times Square billboards accuse advisers of showing ‘indifference’ to Americans suffering amid pandemic #US https://t.co/SiDPlmwwhl
  • NHS bosses accuse Boris Johnson of 'structural discrimination' against mental health https://t.co/VY9cZ8VG6t
  • Government reduces minimum salary for migrants to settle in UK - Rules which come into force in December quietly published on Thursday by Home Office https://t.co/H9MLdLL7qY
  • Upcoming virtual student event: Secrets to Success Midlands — with Gowling WLG, Hogan Lovells, Pinsent Masons and ULaw - Legal Cheek https://t.co/tczOAwOAQi
  • iPhone 12 launch causes NHS Covid-19 app confusion https://t.co/HKOKLaQFbo
  • A ban on supermarkets selling non-essential items during Wales' lockdown will be reviewed after the weekend, First Minister Mark Drakeford has said https://t.co/WRUFD32ZUQ

Sunday

25th October - Law News

Edition 3226: LawNewsIndex is a UK based legal news & articles archive. Since 2011, it has been collating articles on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice. The views expressed in individual articles archived within LawnewsIndex.com are solely the views of the original author.  

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Today's Highlighted Video Story: Refugees and migrants trying to reach Western Europe say they have been abused by Croatian authorities. The Danish Refugee Council has collected testimonials describing whippings, beating, and sexual abuse.

Saturday Conversations on Law
  • The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Burnett has hosted an online event with Chief Justices from around the Commonwealth to discuss their experiences of responding to COVID-19 | NLJ https://t.co/6vRmyT4WSX 
  • Eighteen people have been arrested at a protest in central London over coronavirus lockdown restrictions https://t.co/oohYyiXHXT
  • The winter 2020–spring 2021 Pre-Application Judicial Education Programme (PAJE) is now open for applications | NLJ https://t.co/qDmHW0lSq8
  • The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/ITLlci4iyd
  • Guidance on how to apply for probate online using the MyHMCTS portal has been published by HM Courts & Tribunals Service | NLJ https://t.co/Xs19AXTLR
  • A further two Nightingale courts have opened at Bristol Law Society’s headquarters and Chester Town Hall, bringing the total number to 14 | NLJ https://t.co/DbAS76651
  • Personal injury firms may be pointing their marketing efforts at the wrong targets, according to research by legal marketing collective First4Lawyers | NLJ https://t.co/J8nVcf3k06
  • Islam and the Limits of the State: Reconfigurations of Practice, Community and Authority in Contemporary Aceh #Indonesia https://t.co/kqBH2Vb2Ir
  • Our Legal Heritage: Black History Month – Dido Elizabeth Belle - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/k4pwSjPlUa
  • “They paved paradise and put up a parking lot” Joni Mitchell https://t.co/nrtjvvrbNw
  • Opposition in #Belarus awarded EU’s Sakharov Prize - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/MIiqFsqtJ1
  • WBD energy sector team advises on Scottish energy deal - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/X3xiLr8Tx
  • Wales' second national lockdown is more challenging to police than the first because people are "fatigued" with Covid, a police chief has warned https://t.co/yJDXnesGUh 
  • UK government outlines replacement food protection scheme - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/4jiWvQ2cag 
  • New immigration rules loom as Brexit approaches - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/ltsKKbvG48 
  • Faculty member’s special European Lawyers’ Day role - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/YWLkmuzqPe
  • Lawyers of Tomorrow – Kirstine Rennie - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/ghnEIxeHds
  • Philip Buchan joins Blackadders’ rural team as director - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/4MuHDqEk5Y 
  • Linklaters pledges to do better on racial diversity | Law Gazette https://t.co/iNLt6sZUbl
  • The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/yHLT9EOshM
  • UK's top universities urged to act on classism and accent prejudice - Investigation finds widespread evidence of students being ridiculed over their backgrounds https://t.co/by51YQeQgT 
  • A self-proclaimed member of a violent far-right anti-government group has been charged with rioting during the George Floyd protests in Minnesota #US https://t.co/jpmd8NAiVA
  • Video dismissed as fake by #Azerbaijan, of a potential war crime have emerged as fighting rages around the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, which had been occupied by #Armenia https://t.co/yTsq0RClhJ
  • Slater and Gordon puts roles at risk as business continues evolution | Law Gazette https://t.co/tEV83e09cq 
  • Solicitor cleared by SDT over signed document complaint | Law Gazette https://t.co/E8RrkamwPv
  • SFO tries to lift the veil on deferred prosecutions | Law Gazette https://t.co/mbxqFsrSV6 
  • PC renewals extended as solicitors report IT 'nightmare' | Law Gazette https://t.co/G7skgI7o9J 
  • Health fears for jailed Iranian human rights lawyer | Law Gazette https://t.co/qNcajZ3LDg
  • Solicitors sworn in as High Court judges | Law Gazette https://t.co/kOK6IYXDtA
  • Technology could widen law centre catchment areas, says MoJ minister | Law Gazette https://t.co/sxCFIv6ZGc
  • Legal sector welcomes Japan trade deal | Law Gazette https://t.co/BUZHssS9BP
  • Facebook moderators forced to work in Dublin office despite high-tier lockdown #Ireland https://t.co/5SsgLvedYI
  • #Austria's postal service issues 'corona stamp' printed on toilet paper https://t.co/SA8rEqeRGq 
  • European farmers lose attempt to ban terms such as veggie burger - Meat-related words can be used to describe plant-based foods, decides European parliament https://t.co/gGxOpfr9yi
  • Two found guilty of murdering Irish dancer with 'devil's breath' drug - Adrian Murphy, 43, was targeted by Joel Osei and Diana Cristea on the dating app Grindr https://t.co/1k2oUn6zrO 
  • BLM UK gains legal status and renames as Black Liberation Movement UK https://t.co/GRFIfqKXaB

Saturday

24th October - Law News

Edition 3225: LawNewsIndex is a UK based legal news & articles archive. Since 2011, it has been collating articles on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice. The views expressed in individual articles archived within LawnewsIndex.com are solely the views of the original author.  

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Today's Highlighted Video Story: India's Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi has targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the migrant crisis during the coronavirus lockdown and Chinese aggression at the border as he addressed a series of rallies in Bihar for polls next week. Rahul Gandhi and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, the leader of the opposition alliance, addressed a joint rally at Nawada. Their campaign coincided with PM Modi's first day of rallies in Bihar with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.

Saturday Conversations on Law
  • Portsmouth University halls 'street party' broken up by police https://t.co/DZAsuu1WaC 
  • Piers Corbyn 'specifically targeted by police' at anti-lockdown protest court heard https://t.co/dhqliYPhuG
  • Man charged with right-wing terror plot to kill immigration solicitor: Cavan Medlock, 28, of Harrow, north London, is charged with preparing an act of terrorism by researching Duncan Lewis Solicitors with the intention of killing an immigration solicitor https://t.co/YrqRew51jh
  • 'Covid parties' could become the norm, immunology expert says https://t.co/byOZd4Y2YV
  • Rights group seeks to use UK sanctions to stop abuse of Turkish lawyers - Arrested Lawyers Initiative gathering evidence on hundreds jailed or awaiting trial https://t.co/F1zFn685ct 
  • The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/OIXPm7vyUo
  • UK must be 'brave' and prosecute gulf royal accused of sexual assault, says top QC - Helena Kennedy says CPS must pursue case against UAE minister accused of assaulting British citizen Caitlin McNamara at Hay Abu Dhabi festival https://t.co/PZO1zSaS2w Oct 23, 2020
  • Plans for a drive-in cinema in Chester were bogged down after the toilets were found to be across the border with Wales and subject to Welsh Covid rules https://t.co/xxgZer7hKK
  • #Poland abortion ruling: Protests spread across the country https://t.co/aNAf62mR70 
  • Wales lockdown: Covid 'firebreak' comes into force https://t.co/PaOosQdiZa
  • Rape prosecutions and convictions dropped by half early in UK pandemic - Data for England and Wales reflects lockdown, distancing and rising court backlog https://t.co/CoIviAETuU
  • UK insurers warn against go-ahead for self-driving cars on motorways - Government plana set to start in 2021 risk lives and are ‘hugely wrong’, experts say https://t.co/iIa2kfSE4s 
  • Remdesivir: #US regulators approve first drug to treat Covid-19 - The antiviral medicine remdesivir has been given full approval in the US after a trial showed it cut recovery time by five days https://t.co/wYrQr5r3zI
  • The contribution and achievements of ethnic minorities, particularly those of African and Caribbean ancestry, to all aspects of all our lives is largely omitted | Law Gazette https://t.co/QgOAKLvopv
  • LCJ wades in to immigration row | Law Gazette https://t.co/TlglzipR3
  • Success planning trumps succession planning - Legal Futures https://t.co/cP6qjLGeSe
  • SRA to recover less than 30% of prosecution costs in Bakers case | Law Gazette https://t.co/uUXHJxloJa
  • Pro-Beijing lawyer faces SDT over “kill protestors” comments - Legal Futures https://t.co/C1ORFUhXeM
  • New cases registered rise to 83 per cent of average monthly pre-Covid level - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/GMAhwW1P3p
  • Prisons ‘fit to burst’ as activity levels plummet - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/jtg1xahQx9
  • Inner House resolves right to buy dispute between two feuding families  - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/hVwf9rc54C
  • Junior lawyers welcome SDT leniency for suffering solicitor | Law Gazette https://t.co/cfMQRlwXrI
  • "KKK" solicitor fined for groping female colleagues - Legal Futures https://t.co/44B2FRGL0y 
  • Human rights body raises concern over digital working | Law Gazette https://t.co/mQx5367lYR 
  • LeO to seek in-year budget supplement for first time - Legal Futures https://t.co/f6tUPh0IfV
  • Top Investigator in Google Case Says There ‘Was Not a Rush’ to Sue #US https://t.co/Qc1pFEmBTP
  • Solicitor who joked about Ku Klux Klan fined £30k by tribunal | Law Gazette https://t.co/jPBWEy1Q5O
  • Forget Antitrust Laws. To Limit Tech, Some Say a New Regulator Is Needed. Even as the Justice Department sued Google, some antitrust experts wondered whether a different government response would be more effective #US https://t.co/MxAf1omvM6
  • Susan Nicholson's parents win appeal for fresh inquest https://t.co/Neph9PBKgl
  • Scotland to enter new five-tier Covid alert system https://t.co/w4cwW9oIKA
  • Female lawyers anxious over disproportionate impact of Covid - Legal Futures https://t.co/OwcoFq23kK
  • SRA to pay interim £40k costs after ‘lamentable’ prosecution | Law Gazette https://t.co/SUdQfhHwS3
  • 7 week-old firm with links to Tory peer lands £122 million PPE contract, there was no tender process when the contract was handed to an associate of Baroness Mone https://t.co/gG3I2qoVx0 
  • #UAE threatens to repatriate 18 former Guantánamo detainees to Yemen - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/KxRv99pEML
  • Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer and YouTube all found recently hosting racist music https://t.co/RQLi3OBXIs
  • The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/dYzKrtIHm
  • SCTS team named finalists at leading procurement awards - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/28NsnWs4S
  • Shared Parenting Scotland launches initiative for separated parents - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/BK2sJvqcc
  • ‘First Class’ - Terra Firma praised in latest edition of Chambers & Partners - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/D6TLxpEopx
  • Edinburgh ICCA Congress to be held next September - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/WM5FBtubHM
  • Ampersand Advocates Bitesized: complications of accommodation costs - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/ULMGsVxjSV
  • Success in post-lockdown trial highlights importance of preparation - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/y8pwfH3eFI
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